Writing from a four-part workshop in 2010 led by Armando Garcia-Dávilo (Healdsburg's 2002-2003 poet laureate). The writers each spent 3 three hours wandering around Healdsburg, Calif. and the surround areas in Sonoma County, look for inspiration for a story or poem. Contributors include: David Beckman, Armando Garcia-Dávila, Simon Jeremiah, David Mechling, Mona Mechling, Chris Peasley, Waights Taylor Jr., and Margo van Veen.
Escape From Reality is a collection of short stories encompassing several genres of fiction such as magic realism, fantasy, romance, mystery, science fiction and fantasy. In this book there are heroes and villains, moral and physical challenges, time travel, vampires, alternate worlds and nonstop action that brings forth the true measure of a man. It’s time to escape from reality...
Mika and the Queen's Quilt is about a girl named Mika, who has a dream about a special magical quilt, which is hidden in a drawer of her mother's dresser. After awakening she goes quietly to her parents' room, and finds the quilt as in her dream. They receive a surprise visit by her aunt Gwendolyn, who has come from the village of Rosehill. Gwendolyn lets everyone know about a warlock who is getting ready to invade the village, and take everyone prisoner. After hearing her story, her parents are a little wary, but agree to help her out. Mika stays with her aunt, and goes back to her castle at Rosehill. When they arrive her aunt shows her around the castle, then goes down steep stairs that lead to the dungeon. Mika looks inside when her aunt, her two thugs lock the door. Mika asks why are you doing this to me. She answers by saying I want the Queens Quilt, and if it is given to me, I will set you free."--P. [4] of cover.
Our world today -- from the phone in your pocket to the car that you drive, the allure of social media to the strategy of the Pentagon -- has been shaped irrevocably by the technology of silicon transistors. Year after year, for half a century, these tiny switches have enabled ever-more startling capabilities. Their incredible proliferation has altered the course of human history as dramatically as any political or social revolution. At the heart of it all has been one quiet Californian: Gordon Moore. At Fairchild Semiconductor, his seminal Silicon Valley startup, Moore -- a young chemist turned electronics entrepreneur -- had the defining insight: silicon transistors, and microchips made of them, could make electronics profoundly cheap and immensely powerful. Microchips could double in power, then redouble again in clockwork fashion. History has borne out this insight, which we now call "Moore's Law", and Moore himself, having recognized it, worked endlessly to realize his vision. With Moore's technological leadership at Fairchild and then at his second start-up, the Intel Corporation, the law has held for fifty years. The result is profound: from the days of enormous, clunky computers of limited capability to our new era, in which computers are placed everywhere from inside of our bodies to the surface of Mars. Moore led nothing short of a revolution. In Moore's Law, Arnold Thackray, David C. Brock, and Rachel Jones give the authoritative account of Gordon Moore's life and his role in the development both of Silicon Valley and the transformative technologies developed there. Told by a team of writers with unparalleled access to Moore, his family, and his contemporaries, this is the human story of man and a career that have had almost superhuman effects. The history of twentieth-century technology is littered with overblown "revolutions." Moore's Law is essential reading for anyone seeking to learn what a real revolution looks like.
Bioinorganic chemistry has a cross disciplinary approach, applying the principles of chemistry to biological systems. Metallochemistry of Neurodegeneration: Biological, Chemical and Genetic Aspects discusses the rapidly developing area of metals in the nervous system and their role in neurodegenerative disease, such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and prion diseases. Written by leading experts in their fields, each chapter combines elements of genetics, biochemistry and biological inorganic chemistry in its discussion. The book highlights the differences in pathologies of neurodegenerative diseases but also discusses the mechanistic similarities. Sections include: metal ions and prion diseases; metal ions and Alzheimer disease; manganese in brain functioning; metal involvement in Parkinson disease; Cu-Zn superoxide dismutase and familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. This book will appeal to both chemists and biologists at the post graduate and research level.
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